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How fun! An aerospace engineer teamed up with José Andrés’s company to help with #cooking in space. 🪐  🥘 “Grey and her team used the device to cook a Spanish omelet, balancing time, temperature, and g-force to make sure it wasn’t too dense and had just the right touch of runniness inside.”

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Slate has an excerpt from Mayukh Sen’s “Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star,” and it looks fascinating. 📚💙 #booksky “She had transformed herself from a coppery foreigner to the embodiment of Hays-era purity.”

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I didn’t even know this was coming! Very interested. 📚💙 #booksky

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Oooh, great news about the health benefits of drinking tea, which is a near-constant in my house. 🍵🫖 A study “found that tea leaves naturally adsorb heavy metals, filtering out harmful water contaminants like lead, cadmium or arsenic.”

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Am I looking for easy recipes? All signs point to yes. Paprika chicken and potatoes, then Spanish tortilla on successive days? 🥘 #cooking www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/span...

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Looks like a lot of interesting shows are coming to New York. Interested in a musical based on a cartoon character, “Boop!”; “Goddess,” a musical based on the myth of Marimba; and “The Queen of Spades,” an opera of obsession. 🎭🎶

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Research continues into how and why we dream, because it’s still such a mystery. #science “One long-held hypothesis is that dreaming serves as a means of simulating potential threats, preparing us for danger that may come our way.”

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Cannot wait to see this amazing cast and crew's take on our favorite grumpy, protective, introvert Murderbot and its lovingly accepting crew (except Gurathin, grudging acceptor). Martha Wells's books are wonderful, and Kevin R. Free's audiobooks are so immersive, and this will be a great third path.

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Debating whether to read or listen to it, but “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” by Rebecca Romney, is on my TBR, cause this review drew me in! 📚💙 #booksky “Romney reads through the works of these writers and others ... in the process evaluating her own reactions as a 21st-century woman.”

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A humorous guide to determining whether you’re reading literary or genre fiction, with a flow chart! 📚💙 #booksky

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Love authors’ writing playlists. So fun.

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Ooh, how filmmaker David Lynch influenced video games, including Zelda. 🎦🎥 🎮🕹️ “Lynch never delved completely into horror, but his DNA is all over the genre, particularly in video games. “Silent Hill,” released in 1999 for the first PlayStation, … Konami developers looked to Lynch for guidance.”

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Fun story about scholars racing to decipher cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system. “the writing system had taken over the ancient world. It employed both phonetic characters and logograms, or pictorial symbols meant to represent a whole word, and could be used to write different languages.”

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I had Salad Niçoise at a restaurant recently and was reminded how flavorful and filling it can be, if done right. The chunks of tuna and slivered sardines pop against the other ingredients. 🥗🐟🍽️

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Nice interview about NY Public Library’s Best New Romance List. I've read a few (list seems to be from last year) and highly recommend "Funny Story" by Emily Henry, "Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love" by India Holton & "Slow Dance" by Rainbow Rowell. Will check out others on the list 📚💙 #booksky

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I know it came out a few months ago and I’m behind, but I’m excited to dive into “The Marlow Murder Club” series on PBS. I’ve read book one in Robert Thorogood’s series and enjoyed it. 📺 📚💙 #booksky www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterp...

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The cute doggos will always get a spot in my timeline. 🐶🐕🐾 “now Monty will retire and live the rest of his life as a cherished family pet who loves to eat steak, play with soccer balls and make occasional mischief.“ wapo.st/40XR4j6

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Oooh, Wash Post has a space-debris avoidance game at the end of this explainer about what is junking up space. Gift link. 🪐 wapo.st/3WTgAVK

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Really enjoyed “Murder by Matchlight,” a Golden Age mystery by E.C.R. Lorac. I heard about it on the great podcast Shedunnit. 📚💙 #booksky Bruce Mallaig witnesses a murder in Regents Park. “Mallaig's view of the assailant but a brief glimpse of a ghastly face in the glow of a struck match.”

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A fantastic profile of actor Colman Domingo, up for an Oscar for “Sing Sing,” He was also in “Rustin” & “Color Purple” 🎦🎥 “It's about getting people to think, maybe helping people think differently. You know, that's all I can do. The macro I can't take care of. But I can take care of the micro.”

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An important #cybersecurity protections story. Gift link. “While there’s no foolproof way to know whether you’re being monitored, some techniques could provide insight ... It also may be a good time to consider locking down your personal communications” wapo.st/3Evn46N

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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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This is looking like a bad-weather week. Stay safe! Gift link. ❄️🌨️

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Love this @smartbitches.bsky.social Rec League for Shop Around the Corner-style books. I've added Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson and Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese to my TBR. Agree with great recs of Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen and Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest 💙📚

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I did not realize there is a Pride and Prejudice film adaptation that was co-written by Aldous Huxley. 🎦🎥 💙📚 "Claiming that the 1940 film Pride and Prejudice is a faithful adaptation of the original Jane Austen text is like visiting Oz and calling it Kansas."

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I feel seen by “Figuring out what to have for dinner” and “Unexplained smells or noises”

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Oooh. This list of “where to begin” with romance books is fun. 📚💙 #booksky “All of these books have some quality I consider emblematic of great romance — an archetype or a setting or a lavishly bonkers sensibility.”

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New books for Lunar New Year! Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion ..., by Seiji Yoshida (translator Jan Mitsuko Cash); Chinese Mythology: Legendary Tales ..., by Aaron Hwang (illustrator Adela Li); and The Riyria Revelations, books 1 to 3, by Michael J. Sullivan. 🪐📚💙 #booksky

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An interesting story about the nutritional benefits of masala chai, including a recipe for how to make the tea. Gift link. 🍵🫖 wapo.st/3WO5YXU

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A theater critic was injured and couldn’t sit to review performances. The two-month experience of seeing shows from a different vantage point — standing off to the sides instead of seated center orchestra — gave him a new perspective on the people on stage and behind the scenes. 🎭

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Loved Dav Pilkey’s talk at Library of Congress last week. He was engaging and funny, and he talked about living and thriving with ADHD. He clearly enjoys his job and appreciates his readers. 📚💙 #booksky It was the start of a national & international tour, and I highly recommend going if you can.

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Dolly Parton is executive producing?! Please, please, please.

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I need easy distraction right now, so I am rereading old favorites by listening to the audiobooks. The latest is some short stories by Agatha Christie performed by Joan Hickson, Hugh Fraser and others with soothing voices. 📚💙 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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A college friend was a costume designer, and I was always fascinated by the research she did for and the work she put into making period-, income- and geography-appropriate outfits for plays. This is a nice story about the Oscar costume design nominations.

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Love Neko Case’s music (solo, with New Pornographers, as part of Case Lang Veirs) and I’m looking forward to reading (or listening to) her new memoir. 📚💙

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I’ve been listening to music more, which means I’m finding new-to-me music. I missed that Deb Talan (of The Weepies) released “Lucky Girl”; it’s full of engaging, confessional pop. Maggie Rose's “No One Gets Out Alive” has a soulful, ‘70s feel 🎵 debtalan.com/music/ maggierose.lnk.to/NoOneGetsOut...

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We donate to food banks and a big reason is how creative they are in getting food to people who need it. On this #GivingTuesday, consider donating to your local food bank, such as the Capital Area Food Bank, which is doing great work partnering with health clinics in the D.C. area wapo.st/3ZdZp1s

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This story about Maria Tallchief, a Native American ballerina of the Osage Nation, is fascinating. Gift link. 🩰 “her legacy rests on what she brought to the art form in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s — a series of revelations about what ballet could be and what a ballerina could look like.”

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This article has some good tips on how to combat isolation and loneliness. Gift link. “Accessing joy means scanning for delight in everyday life, and embracing small bursts of playfulness, wonder, beauty and gratitude.” wapo.st/4jtmOoJ

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As Lunar New Year nears, I’m thinking about Tet and how food unlocks memories. This is a great story that captures some of how I feel. 🧧

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Tip: If you love a book that you’ve bought enough to re-read it, then you can borrow the ebook or audiobook from your library and support the author that way. Libraries buy and pre-order books, promote books in newsletters, and have clubs and other events — boosting authors in many ways 📚💙 #booksky

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I’m interested in this; it looks like a really good documentary on actress Marlee Matlin. “archive footage is incorporated to illustrate her fight to make closed captioning mandatory, her advocacy for deaf rights, and her evolving understanding of the complex issues around deaf identity.”

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It has been VERY cold lately, so I am fondly remembering summer getaways. Here's Virginia marshland in June; it was quite warm. I still can't figure out if that's a heron or an egret. 🐦☀️

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